America has Always Pussy Footed China

China and America are two powers but the relationship is complex. It is a fact that America never opposed China in any significant manner. In fact, it has kowtowed to the dragon at most times. A recent statement by the Philippine president Roberto Duterte is revealing. He said that America never opposed China. He pointedly asked why the Americans did not send 5 aircraft carriers into the South China sea early on and nip the trouble in the bud of Chinese occupation of the Spratly islands. Obviously, there is no answer,  for the Americans have given way to the Chinese.

This is not a new phenomenon and right from the time of Mao Tse Tung, the Americans have pussyfooted China. There has been a strange reluctance to engage China or confront it. In 1964 China went nuclear. It also announced that its nuclear arsenal would be a deterrent for the USA. It considered the USA an imperialist power. Donald and the company are shouting from the rooftops that the nuclear power of North Korea will be dealt with an iron hand. A carrier group the Carl Vinson is moving towards N Korea and making ominous noises. A bombing is on the cards.

A look back to 1964 will show that the Americans did nothing when China went nuclear in 1964. Other than some silly statements by Johnson, the then-president of the USA just sat on its haunches. There was no hysteria about China, like the one is built up against the regime of Kim Jong. Why? In my travels of the length and breadth of the USA, I have not met one American who asked why the USA never bombed China's nuclear facilities. Yes, I ask why China was not bombed and now a hue and cry are made about Korea which is 1/30 the size of the USA. Frankly, there is no logic.

Even now Donald Trump has played the poodle to President Xi in his resort in Florida. He has tried to placate the Chinese leader and asked for sanctions to bomb Korea. What a joke. A leader of a superpower asking for permission to bomb North Korea. Readers must remember that Donald will only bomb Korea in case he gets green light from President Xi. 

Donald also forgot all his earlier rants against China that he would get the occupation of the Spratly island rolled back as well as that China was a currency manipulator. What a far cry from a man who has changed colors overnight. Donald is not the first US president and one can recollect that Richard Nixon flew all the way to China to bow to the Chinese emperor Mao. It was like the old age when China was the center of the world. China has now engineered the coronavirus and is belligerent all over, what will the uS do?